Can't beat a great schedule IMO. I'm almost never in the office past 4:30 and I work from home on Fridays and 2-3 other days during the month. I have to work nights and weekends sometimes but I have a lot of flexibility (no one gives me grief if I cut out at 3-something or take a 2-3 hour long lunch)

I LOVE my schedule. Wouldn't change anything about it. It's probably #2 on the list of things keeping me here because my last two jobs kinda sucked in comparison, schedule-wise (even though the work and the people were more interesting in my last two stops).

If you are pretty sure any move will put you in a worse situation as far as hours/schedule, the bump in pay should be enough to compensate you for that. I'm not so sure I would leave a good work/life balance behind for exciting work, especially if you have kids coming. But it's really all personal preference. You might find a job you love with better pay and just get used to a worse schedule. It's hard to tell for sure.

Is there any way you can make your current job more interesting, maybe learn a new skill so you can help out in a different part of the company?

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Posted on 4/10/14 at 7:39 am to ZereauxSum

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If you are pretty sure any move will put you in a worse situation as far as hours/schedule, the bump in pay should be enough to compensate you for that.

The pay would be pretty much the same. Definitely not enough to sway me one way or the other.

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You might find a job you love with better pay and just get used to a worse schedule.

There are plenty of people I know in my profession that have kids/family and deal with their schedule just fine. I just know it wouldn't be as ideal. Hell, I'm already thinking 6-7 years down the road and how I'd like to be able to coach my future kids' youth basketball and baseball/softball teams! Maybe I'm thinking too far ahead, but I just know jobs with these hours are hard to come by in my profession.

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Is there any way you can make your current job more interesting, maybe learn a new skill so you can help out in a different part of the company?

Not really. I had to learn a new skill for this job (get trained/certified), and that's pretty much all I do now. I'm a pharmacist working in healthcare IT at a hospital. My sole responsibility is the build/maintenance/upgrade of the pharmacy component of our electronic medical records software. It was interesting at first, but now I'm kinda over it and think I would prefer getting back to a normal pharmacist job...at least in regards to job satisfaction. I kinda enjoyed working with patients and other healthcare workers as opposed to sitting at my computer in my office and only interacting with my fellow healthcare IT people. That schedule tho...